Right outside our kitchen window

Right outside our kitchen window, a hummingbird sits in her nest. The nest is leftover from last year and was built on top of one of our porch swing chains. To give you some perspective, not much more than a quarter would fit easily into the nest.

I wish we could figure how to get a better picture without disturbing her or the nest. For now, we’ll stick to taking pictures through the window. In the meantime, you should check out this post from one of Carson’s visits to Morning Bray Farm last summer, when she took some amazing photos of our hummer babies.

I am so glad you put a picture of a hummingbird’s nest! We have so many around here(hummingbirds) and I always wondered what their nest looks like.
I did look at Carson’s pictures and they were just wonderful!

This year, I had pretty much decided I wasn’t going to do hummingbird feeding. They’re so greedy that keeping the feeders filled becomes a part-time job.
Twice, though, I’ve had one stop, hover and stare at me: “All right. Where is it?!”
I’m waiting right now for the nectar to cool enough to fill the feeders.

It is a lot of work keeping those feeders filled, isn’t it? We haven’t been able to specifically identify what kind of hummingbirds we have yet, but on whatbird.com, an interesting fact listed about black-chinned hummingbirds is: In cold weather, a Black-chinned Hummingbird may ingest three times its body weight in nectar in one day. No wonder we’re constantly refilling our feeders! 🙂

Okay, this is pretty cool. I knew that their nests were made up of spider and insect silk (and bits of leaves and whatnot). What I didn’t know is what I just found on whatbird.com under the same listing for the black-chinned hummingbird: Their nest can expand as nestlings grow. The spider and insect silk holding it together stretches and allows the nest to grow along with the growing chicks. How smart is that? 🙂

I found a hummingbird’s nest a couple of years ago in a maple tree in our front yard. I wanted to leave it there but one of my granddaughter’s wanted to take it to “show & tell”…. naturally, I let her have it but I really wanted to see if they would come back the next year. It was so incredibly small and a ton of different materials! It was very interesting. Have a good Memorial day weekend.

It was soft – I do remember that. It had strands of hair, a piece of material from a ribbon on a basket from the pool deck and lots of stuff that I didn’t know what it was. Now I know, thanks to you, that some of that stuff was silk….

Lucky you!!! I’ve wanted to just see a hummer nest. To have one so up close & personal would be an unbelievable treat. Great photo, and please do keep us updated. Off to check out your link to last years’ nest…

All those photos were just amazing. We’ve seen a couple of hummingbirds whiz by the back porch at our place, which is a couple more than we ever saw in the city. I was thinking about putting out a feeder, but didn’t know if 2 birds meant we’d have enough come back to feed or they were just passing by. Anyway, when I looked at those pics from last year, I wondered to myself if those little ones managed to stay in the nest long enough to grow up and fly away. Thanks for sharing!